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Bothalia is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4), DOAJ. Published by South African National Biodiversity Institute.
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ISSN 0006-8241Verify ISSN ↗2311-9284Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: South African National Biodiversity Institute
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 521 / 736 | 29th | Q3 |
| Plant Science | 394 / 541 | 27th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–2025 (also 1978), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
Bothalia is Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 521 of 736) and Q3 in Plant Science (rank 394 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Bothalia is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3, 29th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.169, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 29.
Bothalia is published by South African National Biodiversity Institute. Its print ISSN is 0006-8241 and its online ISSN is 2311-9284.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Bothalia has an h-index of 49 and a 2-year mean of 0.91 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #407 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Bothalia published 14 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 45. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 89 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (64.5%), Costa Rica (7.7%) and United Kingdom (3.8%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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